College Tuition

April 6, 1985

SUPPORTS HIS BOSS. An aide to Gov. Bob Graham defended Graham's proposal for a two-year, 25 percent tuition increase as House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees took their first official crack at the governor's proposed $14.3 billion budget. Graham aide Bob Cox told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education that taxpayers are subsidizing the education of wealthy students in public universities through the current tuition structure. Graham has said Florida students pay 16 percent of the cost of their educations and that his increase would leave them paying 21 percent. Nationally tuition covers 25 percent of the cost of an education. Student Regent Robert Westerfeldt urged committee members to adopt the gradual 5 percent per year increases regents favor.